Wisdom takes work: learn. apply. repeat

The four virtues

Introduction

I. THE AGOGE (your training ground). A most unusual education... Talk to the dead

Be curious

Ask the question

Focus, focus, focus

Learn to listen

Create a second brain

Find your classroom

Find your teacher

Become an apprentice

Join a scene

Study the past

Hit the road

Acquire experience

Mens sana in corpore sano . . .

II. THE SIRENS (the perilous rocks you must beware). The storm within

Empty the cup

Write to think right

Assemble your board of directors

Don't be a know-it-all

Watch your information diet

Think for yourself

Don't break your brain

Change your mind

Grow up

Don't be a snowflake

Seek criticism

Make mistakes

Go deep

Don't fall for it

Understand people

From humility to wisdom . . . III. THE APOTHEOSIS (touching the divine). Shrewd, sensible, sound, strong . . .

Practice empathy

Be humble

Always stay a student

Be a teacher

Embrace the mystery

Be self-aware

Free yourself

Be happy

Suffer into truth

Laugh

Don't lose the wonder

Grasp the essence

Pass the final test

Wisdom is virtue. Virtue is wisdom.